how to restore phone backup

In this “how to” we will walk through the steps needed to restore your windows phone backup. Backup restoration process is different for Windows Phone 8 and 7x versions. We will discuss both.

Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 stores the backup of your phone in the cloud using Skydrive associated with your phone’s primary account. You can read about how to back up your windows phone in this “how to”. For you to restore a backup in Windows Phone 8, you will need to hard reset your phone first. Read the “how to” on hard resetting the phone here.

After you have hard reset the phone, switch on the phone.

While setting up enter the Microsoft account login of whose backup you need to restore.

Once your phone is ready to set up, it will automatically look for any available backups.

If there are any backup available, it will list them on the screen along with the date it was backed up.

You can either choose to restore a backup or do a fresh setup.

Note: You can use the restore the backup to your phone even if you have taken the backup from a different manufacturer / model.

Restore Option

Restore Progress

Windows Phone 7x

Windows Phone 7x backs up the data in your PC via Zune. The back ups are generally stored inside the user folder.